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The Reminder

Celebrated local artist, mostly known for his many mural projects around Battle
Creek, Galesburg and Kalamazoo, Patrick Hershberger, aka Bonus Saves,
was eager to create this 1,000 foot mural in downtown Galesburg where he
was once a customer of Billy Gillespie at Billy’s Bike Shop which is featured
as part of the project at 16 E. Michigan Avenue in downtown Galesburg.
(Shopper News photo by Shelly Kehrle-Sulser)

Shane and wife Sammie Gillespie

and their children - Billy’s great-

grandchildren - Truett and Wade

Gillespie, joined the community

painting session in honor of Billy

Gillespie. (Shopper News photo by Shelly

Kehrle-Sulser)

way at Billy’s Bikes. The sign is still
there. He is no longer there because
he passed in 2023 but I and many
other kids through adults bought and
had bikes fixed, and we just inter-
acted with him as a human for years.
I mean, he was just always one
of those people in your childhood
where you just associated with being
there. He was one of those people.”
Lemmon, who bikes 80 miles a
week, rolled up on the Saturday paint
session on her bicycle, purchased
from Billy Gillespie.
“We started working on this three
years ago,” said Lemon. “Sarah Joshi
was our city manager and she said,
‘could you go around and take pic-
tures of locations of where you think
a mural would look good.’”
The GMC building was one of
many candidates for the idea, said
Lemon.
“I put them on a city map and I
never heard anything again,” said
Lemon. “Then out of the clear
blue, somebody said to me, ‘we